Category : Security & Ransomware

Bitcoin, Tor and Botnets – Creating a...

  The advent of darknets, along with the popularization of cryptocurrencies, namely bitcoin, have helped hackers market their services, throughout the past few years, via...

Hijacking Bitcoin – Network Routing Attacks on...

  Being the most successful and most popular cryptocurrency to date, bitcoin represents an attractive target for hackers and cybercriminals. Even though most attack vectors...

Bitcoin Address Clustering (New Heuristics) – Part...

Bitcoin address clustering is a process that attempts to de-anonymize bitcoin users via discovering all addresses generated by a single user, via means of...

InterContinental Hotels Group Affected by Credit Card...

Credit card theft is slowly becoming the norm rather than an exception. Millions of credit card details have been stolen by hackers over the...

Cheap Android Mobile Device Users Spied Upon...

Any story related to the Internet of Things these days will be considered controversial. In the case of one Chinese technology firm, they clearly...

DCMA Changes Give White Hats Carte Blanche...

White hat hacking is subject to many misconceptions. A lot of people feel that hacking is unethical regardless of whether it is done by...

Darknet Users Sentenced To Jail For Buying...

Many people associate Bitcoin usage with the darknet, and there is a certain truth to that story. However, criminals use the deep web for...

Bitcoin Baron Indicted For Several DDoS Attacks...

People familiar with the Bitcoin scene may have heard of the ‘Bitcoin Baron” in the past. This man, known as Randall Charles Tucker, was...

BIP 151 Plans To Encrypt Peer-to-Peer Communication

A recent BIP proposal was pulled by Bitcoin developer Jonas Schnelli with the title “ Peer-to-Peer Communication Encryption.” The change would encrypt peer traffic...

Ransomware Decryption Tool Defuncts TeslaCrypt

Ransomware has been the trending topic of conversation in 2016. Particularly during the months of March, April and May Google Trends shows the cyber...

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